Self-Assessments You Can Complete Online

The fact is that a lot of job seekers don't take the time and effort to analyze how they would fit for a specific job or organization. The result is often an unsatisfactory work environment leading to the "ping-pong" effect of bouncing from one job to another.

The most successful jobseekers truly understand their strengths and weaknesses. These Career Assessments will help you apply your talents more effectively, and explore ways to overcome your weaknesses. The results may even reveal something you never knew about yourself!

Choosing a career begins with knowing what career best matches your personality, skills, and abilities. The following online self-assessment tools may be helpful in your job search:

Free Career Assessment
Are you on the right career path? The average worker changes careers eight times. This assessment from Assessment.com will help you find a career that truly matches your natural motivations.

Birkman Method
This 24-question survey on personal interests groups you into a color code and provides compatible occupations. Detailed descriptions of the careers generated are provided.

Career Key
This 24-question survey determines interests and abilities and allows participants to select careers from a list that he or she would find interesting. The participant's answers generate a list of occupations that closely match his or her personality.

Enneagram Test
This 146-question survey determines your personality traits and groups them into one of nine types. The survey helps to identify personal strengths and weaknesses.

Keirsey Temperament Sorter
This 70-question survey deals with feelings toward situations and personal preferences. It groups personalities into four areas which each contain four subgroups. The survey helps to identify personal strengths and weaknesses.

Keirsey Character Sorter
This two-part survey is an extension of the Keirsey Temperament Sorter.

Soul Survival: Career Values
Nice article and accompanying exercise to help you decide what is important to you in looking for a career or a new employer. Free registration is required.

Transferable Skills Survey
University of Minnesota Duluth site offers this free transferable skills survey.

Take the Hire Me Course.
An on-line course that guides you through the job-search process.  It helps you to set goals, write a resume, find jobs, and more.....

Typing Master
Take a free typing test online.

To successfully manage your career, you need to first know yourself, your strengths and priorities, and be able to communicate these to others. Unless you have spent time assessing yourself, you may have difficulty defining and achieving goals, and selling yourself to a potential employer.

More in depth assessment and career counseling is available to qualified individuals at the workforce centers.